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University of Illinois Health in Chicago broke ground on its Outpatient Surgery Center and Specialty Clinic in 2020.
While just about everyone expects that healthcare will continue to push into outpatient settings, whether the pandemic is strengthening that trend depends on whom you talk to.
“Yes, the outpatient growth was already booming prior to the pandemic. To assuage consumer concerns, there is a need for an increased number of ambulatory settings today,” Earl Swensson Associates, an architectural firm based in Nashville, said in its response to Modern Healthcare’s 2021 Construction & Design Survey.
“No,” Gould Turner Group, an architectural, planning and interior design firm based in Nashville, said in its survey response. “If anything, the pandemic has caused office visits to decline, and we’ve seen an increase in telehealth visits.”